| LC control no. | n 93027554 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jones, Frederick McKinley, 1893-1961 |
| Variant(s) | Jones, Fred, 1893-1961 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1893-05-17 |
| Death date | 1961-02-21 |
| Place of birth | Ohio |
| Place of death | Minneapolis (Minn.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Army Ultraphone (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Engineers Soldiers Inventors |
| Found in | Swanson, G.B. I've got an idea! c1994: CIP t.p. (Frederick McKinley Jones) galley (Fred Jones) LC data base, 03-25-93 (hdg.: Jones, Frederick McKinley, 1893-1961 African American National Biography, accessed May 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Jones, Frederick McKinley; "Casey"; inventor, engineer, electrical engineer, soldier; born 17 May 1893 in Ohio, United States; a self-taught mechanical genius; arrived in Hallock, Minnesota (1912); was inducted into the army (1918) and honorably discharged (1919); built the town's first radio broadcast station and belatedly got a license; installed the first X-ray unit at Hallock's hospital (1923); invented an early transistor and what may have been the first condenser microphone (during the 1920s); the first feasible two-cycle gas engine; developed two sound systems for the theater, for soundtracks played on phonograph and then for the sound-on-film system; hired by the company Ultraphone, marketing sound equipment, Minneapolis; invented the first automatic system for movie theater tickets (patented in 1939); worked out a refrigeration system for trucks; the company became Thermo-King; his design for refrigeration equipment was adopted as a national standard by the military; worked out railroad refrigeration equipment (the early 1950s); was inducted into the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers (1944); posthumously was inducted into the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame (1977); received the National Medal of Technology (1991); died 21 February 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) |
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